ONTAP AI — NVIDIA & NetApp AI-proven architecture

ONTAP AI solution integrates NVIDIA DGX systems, NetApp AFF A800 storage system with state-of-the-art networking. ONTAP AI simplifies artificial intelligence (AI) deployments by eliminating design complexity and guesswork.

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NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputers

At the heart of ONTAP AI are the NVIDIA DGX supercomputers — DGX-1 and DGX-2, a fully-integrated hardware and software turnkey systems that are purpose-built for deep learning. The DGX platform leverages the NVIDIA GPU Cloud Deep Learning Software Stack, which is optimized for maximum GPU accelerated DL and ML performance.

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Superfast NetApp AFF systems

NetApp AFF systems keep data flowing to DL processes with the industry’s fastest and most flexible all-flash storage, featuring the world’s first end-to-end NVMe technologies. The A800 is capable of feeding data to NVIDIA DGX systems with a speed of up to 300GBps.

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Reliable Cisco networking

Cisco Nexus 3232C 100Gb Ethernet switch is a low latency, dense, high-performance, power-efficient, 100-Gbps switch designed for the data center.

Scalable architecture

ONTAP AI is a higly flexible and scalable solution which can start small and grow non-disruptively while intelligently managing data from the edge to the core to the cloud and back.

ONTAP-AI DGX-1 reference architecture

The DGX-1 server is an extremely powerful DL platform that benefits from equally powerful storage and network infrastructure to deliver maximum value. By combining NetApp AFF systems with Cisco Nexus switches, you can implement this verified architecture at almost any scale that you need, from a single DGX-1 paired to an AFF A220 system up to potentially 96 DGX-1 servers on a 12-node AFF A800 cluster.

ONTAP AI with DGX-1 Reference Architecture Guide

ONTAP-AI DGX-1 reference architecture

ONTAP-AI DGX-2 reference architecture

NVIDIA DGX-2 GPU servers are enabling the next generation of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. NetApp AFF storage systems deliver extreme performance and industry-leading hybrid cloud data management capabilities. The configuration used in this validation is one of many possible ONTAP AI variations, and it delivers the highest levels of performance for enterprise-scale AI and ML operations. ONTAP AI enables customers to start small and seamlessly scale from half-rack to rack to datacenter scale.

ONTAP AI with DGX-2 Reference Architecture Guide

ONTAP-AI DGX-2 reference architecture

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Testing

We have the NVIDIA DGX Station available to test performance and especially the speed of deployment of ML and AI applications. Thanks to the NVIDIA Tesla Test Drive program we also have 2 x NVIDIA Tesla V100 for testing. If you are interested in testing, please fill out this form.